If this news from Fudzilla is true, then some partners of NVIDIA are going to offer 1GB versions of the 9600 GT. Let me say that again - 1GB of frame buffer on a card with mid-range performance. If this is true, and performance differences between the 512MB and 1GB versions are what I am guessing they will be (~0-1%), this could be the worst idea I've heard in a long time.

According to Fudzilla CrossFire X will be allow users to combine Radeon HD 3850s, 3870s and even 3870 X2s for up to four GPUs in a single system. That means that you can pair your shiny new 3870 X2 with your previous HD 3850 and get SOME KIND of benefit out of it. How much is still unknown, but we'll be testing it soon enough.

There may be a way to push your older style GTS or GTX beyond the performance we have seen with the new 8800GT. Techgage has tested two 3rd party coolers that might give you enough cooling to push the clock and memory speeds beyond that of the 8800GT. Read on to see how successful these coolers are.

The guys at Fudzilla are showing off some CrossFire X details today including driver availability in early March and they have an brief interview with AMD's Godfrey Cheng, AMD CrossFireX manager, that talks about DX9 and DX10 scaling ability.

Sure, when AGEIA was first seen on the um, scene, NVIDIA countered their claims of physics acceleration with their own partnership with Havok. Then, Intel bought Havok. Well, then, what's a graphics giant to do? If you're AMD apparently the answer is "pass" but if you're NVIDIA the answer is "buy the remaining physics software company".

Now, we're not going to try to make an article out of a mound, or something like that, but these screen shots are pretty impressive. I've included one below but you should check out the teaser page for the upcoming 3DMark Vantage for a couple more.

AMD's response to the enthusiast has arrived with the 3870 X2, a pair of GPUs on a single card running at 825 MHz at the core and RAM doing 1.8 GHz. The card uses Crossfire invisibly, there is no set up to do, in fact you can't even see Crossfire as an option with one of these cards, so the set up is a breeze. It performs on par or better than nVIDIA's offerings, and you can expect to pay ~$500 when it becomes available. [H]ard|OCP even managed a fair overclock of 878Mhz a

Calgary, Alberta - January 28th, 2008 - Right on the heals of AMD announcing the availability of the ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 earlier this month, CoolIT Systems debuts the third installment in the Reference Series line of liquid cooling systems designed to quietly and effectively cool Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s highly anticipated performance graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. In recent testing, the liquid cooled cards were stably clocked up to

Sure today might be all about AMD's new Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card, but NVIDIA's upcoming 9800 GX2 just feels left out. And what do self-conscious graphics cards do to get attention? Take off their clothes.
NVIDIA's design uses two separate PCBs instead of one like AMD's new card does, but the effect is generally the same.

Hopefully this will soon disappear, but every launch AMD has recently tried doesn't seem to have gone as planned. This time around, North American reviewers were instructed not to reveal the new graphics cards performance, but across the pond that message never got across. So we have been seeing the performance of at least one of the cards for about 24 hours now. The rest of the new family has now been revealed, there are many reviews out there, but s

According to some NDA-breaking benchmarks on a site in China; PCOnline.com.cn, the new AMD 3870X2 pulls ahead of an 8800Ultra in 3DMark06 scoring 14573 to 10676 with 4xAA and 16AF @ 1280x1024. The Crysis scores are rather impressive too, although nVIDIA's card manages to keep top spot.

MSIs' NX8800GT-T2D256E-OC goes the opposite way of the Palit GeForce 8800 GT Super+1GB, by halving the normal amount of memory on the 8800GT, as opposed to doubling it. The Hardware Zone tested it, and found it lacking in certain areas. If you never plan on showing HD content, or you have a sub 22" monitor that can't go beyond 1680x1050, then you won't be too disappointed with this cards lack of memory. Unfortunately, the MSRP that Hardware Zone was given is awfully close to the pric

An interesting package hit my door step yesterday and in it were two graphics cards of unknown origin. Well, not completely unknown since I bought them from a PC Perspective Forums member, but their REAL origin is a mystery. Why the secrets? Turns out these cards unreleased GeForce 9600 GT cards. No, really. And yeah, I just BOUGHT them.

One of the quickest ways to spend a good chunk of money every paycheque is to upgrade your video card every time the factory overclocked version gets a bump of a few MHz. It doesn't have to be that way, it isn't that difficult or expensive to do it yourself. Of course any time you overclock you run into the possibility of killing the part you are pushing beyond spec. If that risk doesn't deter you, CPU3D has just released a new graphics overclocking guide. Start your first overclocking project, or